Pieces On Emotions
Foreword: Part of identifying as an Asian person, is the hate and bigotry that comes with looking, “sounding”, or just being Asian. While...
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Mithila Rohit Tambe
- Nov 5
- 1 min
Good Tupperware
"Perhaps he could have created / Tupperware for someone like me. / Then could I have enclosed my rotting, / And shut it away"
Samira Abbey
- Nov 5
- 1 min
Luck
"Gems, crystals, stones / Red threads around my wrist / and powder between my brows."
Triparna Poddar
- Nov 4
- 5 min
爱不释手 (can't tear myself away)
Every muscle in Mei's body knows that she’s meant for Hua, that she can’t live without her. She wants to love Hua, and do nothing but that.
Mithila Rohit Tambe
- Nov 4
- 2 min
In Memoriam
My father's childhood and now adulthood has always moved me to desperately question - how do we live with the ghosts of our own selves?
Chris Fong Chew
- Nov 4
- 2 min
I hope this finds you well.
Subject: Message Failed to Send Message: Message to Ellen Failed to Deliver.
Samira Abbey
- Nov 4
- 1 min
Sunflowers
Today’s destruction will never be solved
/ if today's flowers leave the problems unresolved.
Samira Abbey
- Nov 3
- 7 min
mother's love
Hey, Ma, I kissed a girl. I know you said you’d be happiest at my wedding because you hope it’ll end up better than you and Papa did.
Aubrey Meiling
- Nov 3
- 3 min
Ripe
I always loved being a girl, but I think I’ll always feel reluctant to be a woman.
Anuva Chowdhury
- Nov 3
- 3 min
5 reasons i hated therapy
When my therapist diagnosed me with depression, it surprised everyone but me.
Emma Wong
- Nov 3
- 2 min
Summer Morning
The beauty of Chinese nature in the morning, the feeling of hope and renewal.
Aileen Pradhan
- Nov 3
- 3 min
The Recipe for Connection
Cooking with family as the most tangible connection to Aileen's Newar heritage.
Triparna Poddar
- Nov 3
- 4 min
not good friends, not good enemies
Dear you, I don’t think I need to say your name. You know it’s you. You know it’s always been you. I’ve fallen for you again, isn’t it...
Mithila Rohit Tambe
- Nov 3
- 2 min
Vision in a Safeway Parking Lot
A response to 'Crying in H Mart' by Michelle Zauner
LiLi Xiong
- Nov 2
- 2 min
Dear Babies, Welcome to Earth
"The sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It’s hot in the summer, and cold in the winter."
Mithila Rohit Tambe
- Nov 2
- 1 min
Warm Regards,
"I got COVID at a concert last week, and am still / recovering. / I inadvertently drank rotten milk last night."
Dear Asian Youth
- Oct 29
- 2 min
Pieces on Holidays & Traditions
The wonderful customs and commemorations that celebrate our Asian heritage & culture.
Emily Dissanayake
- Oct 20
- 3 min
59th St.
"It was an escape from exhaustion, an opportunity for repose."
Aubrey Meiling
- Oct 7
- 2 min
Losing Her
This entire summer I’ve woken up in my childhood bed, rummaging through my mind for a piece of the person I used to be.
Hannah Govan
- Oct 7
- 6 min
Blackberry Thorns
Something must be done about the blackberries, but I hesitate to prune their wicked plumage.
Hannah Govan
- Oct 7
- 8 min
Venom Eyes
Too much for dialogue in one sitting but too little for the two generations to explain all that has happened before the Venom eyes.
Sukriti Sinha (Shea)
- Oct 2
- 1 min
happy
"my paper butterflies / crumple like your eyes when you're hurt / and when my feet remain cold / after hours under the blanket"
Chloe Lee
- Oct 1
- 1 min
if my eyes were blue...
as a child,
i longed to be blue-eyed.
with eyes like the ocean
or perhaps the sky above,
my life would be golden,
maybe at last i’d be loved
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